A Reflection On When And Where The Youth Have Sex.
What a painstaking analysis! First of all I have to say, this was well researched and aptly put together. There are more pros than cons for this and one of the main and outstanding is the fact that the researchers highlighted a very important but always ignored aspect concerning youth and sex-the effects of the unsupervised time.
The research also revealed the fact that most youth spend a lot of time unsupervised and that trend sort of increases the probability of them not getting involved in after school activities but experiment with sex.It also highlighted another very important aspect concerning where and when youth have sex.The report scores high on reliability in the sense that most of its findings reflect reality for instance when it says that boys are more likely than girls to engage in sex at an earlier age say 14 years and also having a greater number of lifetime sexual partners.
One major con in this study is that they used more boys than girls in the study and it also used a bigger percentage of black students-an overwhelming ninety-eight percent, does this mean that this is a problem that majorly affects the black community?
The study brought forward some very interesting and profound points and concepts. The study revealed that most youth particularly boys have sex in their own homes and at time their partners’ homes and mostly after school. Most of the students also reported having sex on weekdays and particularly after 6 pm.in addition ,for boys ,the greater the number of unsupervised time the greater the number of life sexual partners. Among girls and not boys sexual activity was associated with non-participation in after school activities. Tobacco and alcohol were associated with unsupervised time among boys and not girls. The study further revealed that hoe early an individual is initiated in matter sex has a correlation with the number of life sex partners.
There were a number of concepts highlighted in the study for instance; the study explained that there was a strong relationship between the number of hours that youth were unsupervised and their sexual activity. The greater the amount of unsupervised time, the greater the percentage of youth who have ever had ever had intercourse. Most parents tend to leave their teenagers on their own as they get to puberty and mature and that’s cited as on of the major reasons to why more of the youth tend to engage in sexual activity out of curiosity and also because of the more non-supervised time accorded to them by parents.
This study is of great importance and useful to asocial work practice. It may guide a social worker providing education and social awareness to parents particularly to parents who have school going children. From the study many will get to understand that they should try to pay close attention to what their children do especially after school. Parents will learn from this study that they need to scrutinize what children engage in when alone or try to ensure that children are not alone. This may serve as awake up call to parents particularly to matters pertaining the social welfare of the boy child because apparently when the boy child is given more non supervised time ,he is more like than the girl child to enage in drugs and experiment with sex.
The report is well put together, the writer has a good command of the English language and the outstanding prose and proper use of grammar is anything to go by. The research findings are presented in a clear way devoid of ambiguity and the communication is effective. The message gets home without fail.
References
Cohen et al. (2002) when and where the youth have sex?the potential role of adults supervision.official journal of the American academy of padeatrics.110(66) p1-6.
The institute for youth development. (n.d.) sexual activity and youth. From HYPERLINK “http://www.youthdevelopment.org/download/sex.pdf” http://www.youthdevelopment.org/download/sex.pdf
Hutchison E.D. (2010) dimensions of human behavior: the changing life course, 4th ed.London: SAGE,